Originally Posted by
Worcester
What though is interesting is if the argument about repricing is judged to be not legal. I am struggling to think of another service where not taking the entire service requires an upwardly adjusted price.
It seems to me that the reasoning of the German court excluded your mode of reasoning and implicitly admitted the legitimacy of repricing: they seem to accept that something like FRA-BKK is not a "lesser service" to LHR-FRA-BKK but a different product altogether.
Originally Posted by
Worcester
It could well be argued that this city-specific price discrimination is anti competitive.
I can't quite see how. There is no meaningful competition between PAR-NYC (whether direct or indirect via LON) and LON-NYC (whether direct or indirect via PAR). These are different products with different markets: there is competition between CDG-(LHR)-JFK and CDG-JFK direct and there is some competition between LHR-(CDG)-JFK and LHR-JFK direct but there is no competition between CDG-(LHR)-JFK and LHR-JFK nor between LHR-(CDG)-JFK and CDG-JFK